Beruas

Beruas was a Malay settlement on the Perak coast, remembered in the Malay Annals as the capital of the Hindu kingdom of Gangga Negara. After the Chola raid around 1025, Hindu chiefdoms continued along the coast.

By the 15th century a kingdom called Beruas had emerged. In 1528 the remnants of the Malaccan Sultanate founded the Muslim Sultanate of Perak; its first sultan, Muzaffar Shah I, was a son of Malacca’s Mahmud Shah.